Presenting ... The All-Star Squadron!

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As the chatter dies down, Liberty Belle takes the podium. Even after a couple years of doing this, her breath always catches when she looks out at this assemblage.

"All right, everybody," she says, casting a glance absently at Johnny Quick. "Settle down. According to Black Canary and the JSA. we have a serious problem on our hands. Bulletman, a mystery man from Fawcett City, has been beaten to an inch of his life by Capt. Nazi, who seems to be active on U.S. soil. And to make matters worse, Zatarra's old enemy, The Wizard, stopped Capt. Nazi from finishing the job, and warned us that ... and I'm quoting here ... 'Hell is coming to America.'"

She looks around at their faces ... confusion, concern, uncertainty --- all of that, yes. But also determination, courage. Not a one of them is shaken by this news.

"So the question is," she says. "What do we do?"

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"Stop it." The Black Canary voices the obvious. "Find out if Captain Nazi survived that fall? Find the Wizard and see what he knows? Has Bulletman woken up yet?"

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"My, word. As I live and ... well, my word," says a figure familiar to most strolling down the aisles. "So many of my favorite people, all gathered together, looking so fine and heroic."

The ghost walks calmly down the aisle, right between enemies who've chased him for years.

"Miss Liberty Belle," he says, bowing when he reaches the front. "I do beg your forgiveness."

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Watching the others talk, the Black Canary has never been so glad to be a normal human.

Well, as normal as a young woman can be when she studies judo.